Robert Reich Quotes

The world has gotten so interwoven.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can ignore all the outer world.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

I wouldn't say the nation-state is dead, but the Sovereignty has been greatly circumscribed ... even for a country as large as the U. S.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.

The world is becoming smaller every day.